So teachers have said which books they think should be in the must read list:

• 1. Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen
• 2. To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee
• 3. Harry Potter series: JK Rowling
• 4. Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte
• 5. Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte
• 6. Nineteen Eighty-Four: George Orwell
• 7. The Lord of the Rings series: JRR Tolkien
• 8. The Book Thief: Markus Zusak
• 9. The Hobbit: JRR Tolkien
• 10. The Great Gatsby: F Scott Fitzgerald
• 11.. The Kite Runner: Khaled Hosseini
• 12. The Hunger Games series: Suzanne Collins
• 13. The Time Traveler’s Wife: Audrey Niffenegger
• 14. The Chronicles of Narnia series CS Lewis
• 15. Of Mice and Men: John Steinbeck
• 16. Birdsong: Sebastian Faulks
• 17. His Dark Materials series: Philip Pullman
• 18. The Gruffalo: Julia Donaldson+ Axel Scheffler
• 19. The Catcher in the Rye: JD Salinger
• 20. Life of Pi: Yann Martel

Of the top 20 I’ve only read six of them.

BBC News – Pride and Prejudice tops teachers’ favourite 100 books